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verb
Incise  v. t.  (past & past part. incised; pres. part. incising)  
1.
To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. "I on thy grave this epitaph incise."
2.
To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.





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"Incise" Quotes from Famous Books



... plan is to prick or incise each lesion and press out the contents. In some milia it may be necessary also, in order to prevent a return, to touch the base of the excavation with tincture of iodine or with silver nitrate. Electrolysis is also effectual. In those cases where the lesions are numerous the production ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... and intrench themselves in the underlying rock. In their older and wider valleys they cut narrow, steep-walled inner gorges, in which they flow swiftly over rocky floors, broken here and there by falls and rapids where a harder layer of rock has been discovered. Winding streams on plains may thus incise their meanders in solid rock as the plains are gradually uplifted. Streams which are thus restored to their youth are said ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton


Words linked to "Incise" :   worry, cut, scratch up, incision, groove, slit


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